Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly showed a momentary resistance once she realised where her hand was going , but with a soft moan she gave in and her fingers closed around his erect manhood . |
| 2 | It transpired that her family had moved to Tala-Tala and she could n't face the daily ten miles on foot . |
| 3 | Similarly , his principle of " concomitant variation " proposed that whatever phenomenon varies whenever another phenomenon varies , is either the cause or the effect of that phenomenon — a principle more familiarly known as correlation . |
| 4 | In Chapter 1 we proposed that our representation of ordinary nouns should , strictly speaking , include round brackets , to indicate occurrence of a property , inside the square brackets representing entity-hood , but that we should normally allow the round brackets to be omitted in order to simplify the notation , thus abbreviating ( 41 ) ( a ) to ( b ) : ( 41 ) ( a ) [ ( NEIGHBOUR ) ] ( b ) [ NEIGHBOUR ] In the present case , however , given that the function of the adjective is exactly to distinguish between property and entity aspects of a single syntactical item , we shall be obliged to use the fuller form . |
| 5 | She therefore proposed that my father should pretend to fall in love with her difficult and very homesick Italian friend so that it would be clear to her parents that there was no hope of getting him for Fiona . ’ |
| 6 | In order to explain this Marslen-Wilson proposed that his subjects were first identifying each word they heard and then searching their phonological representations of that word for the presence of a /t/ . |
| 7 | ‘ He was screaming at me , ‘ Get outta here , my son 's in Vietnam ’ and then the local sheriff came in and he shouted that his son was in Vietnam and why was n't I in Vietnam ? |
| 8 | Helen reached in and stirred with distaste ; a brown knitted pixie hat surfaced that her mother used to wear long ago , unravelled now to a skeletal condition . |
| 9 | Speaking on March 22 , 1990 , to scientists who had worked on the project , the then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promised that her government would " meet the commitments which it has solemnly accepted " to reduce emissions from power stations [ see pp. 36791-92 ] . |
| 10 | He promised that my secret was safe . |
| 11 | Despite this , he promised that his government would neither challenge press freedom nor take over the privately owned Times of Zambia . |
| 12 | In an address to the nation he promised that his government would seek to lower the cost of living and to stimulate employment , and would " promote a stable atmosphere for production and protect investors ' interests " . |
| 13 | At yesterday 's opening of the first multi-party parliament in 26 years , the president said that the management of the country was the responsibility of Kenyans and no-one else , and promised that his government would present its own economic strategy . |
| 14 | To frequent applause , Mr Clinton promised that his wife , Hillary , would help him tackle a ‘ health care crisis ’ in the US . |
| 15 | There was a momentary crisis when the telex failed , and he was cut off from London , but two Tongan soldiers arrived on his doorstep in the middle of the storm , saluted smartly , acknowledged they realized his predicament and promised that his links with the outside world would be restored ‘ as a matter of the utmost priority ’ . |
| 16 | An investigation of nursery school children demonstrated that their teachers were able to halve the frequency of fights and quarrels merely by attending to the children when they were playing peacefully , and offering comments such as ‘ That 's nice ’ , ‘ You are playing well together ’ . |
| 17 | He may remember that at about this time last year we published a series of figures which demonstrated that his predictions were wrong . |
| 18 | They would allow invaluable policy options for future governments ; they demonstrated that our Government looked much further ahead than the next two or three years . |
| 19 | He insisted on examining my alchemical equipment and pronounced that my method of Fixation was inexact . |
| 20 | It has probably never entered his entered that his Test career could be over . |
| 21 | A training manager of London & Norwich Investment Services Ltd quipped that his firm might advertise in these terms : " Apply to Mr RazorReady , Grab , Fuck It and Run Ltd , Box no … " |
| 22 | Bernard and Laura maintained that their door was always open and while the company remained small , it always was . |
| 23 | There were several teachers who maintained that their classes no longer needed equipment : " they are not remedial , you know " . |
| 24 | Throughout 1815 Miloš maintained that his quarrel was with the oppressive regime of Süleiman Pasha and not with the sultan . |
| 25 | In negotiations with the Iranians , however , North maintained that his enthusiasm for war had no place . |
| 26 | He had survived for only three days at Craigtoun Maternity Hospital , St Andrews , and the parents maintained that his death resulted from damage done by forceps before the birth . |
| 27 | When the records came in his father joked that his son was trying to put him out of business . |
| 28 | A fellow staffer of the time joked that his methods were ‘ street corner based ’ . |
| 29 | But the Ambassador of the DRA to the Soviet Union , Habib Mangal , in reply to questions on the EEC initiative on 1 July underlined that his government did not accept ‘ any policy , any manœuvres , any political subterfuges aimed at making the problem of Afghanistan international ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Indeed I have , mon ami , ’ said Auguste crossly , still mortified that his entrée should be selected , ‘ and I tell you this : it does not make sense . |